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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2005.0446 -- IBM SECURITY ADVISORY
A local user may gain root privileges through the perl interpreter.
14 June 2005
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: perl
Publisher: IBM
Operating System: AIX 5.3
AIX 5.2
Impact: Root Compromise
Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access: Existing Account
CVE Names: CAN-2005-0156 CAN-2005-0155
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IBM SECURITY ADVISORY
First Issued: Mon Feb 14 13:26:10 CST 2005
|Updated : Fri Feb 25 09:57:19 CST 2005
| New AIX 5.2 efix package eliminates issue with multi-processor machines.
| Added APAR information
|Updated : Fri Jun 10 15:19:40 CDT 2005
| Remove interim fix and workaround information
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VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
VULNERABILITY: A local user may gain root privileges through the
perl interpreter.
PLATFORMS: AIX 5.2, AIX 5.3
|SOLUTION: Apply APARs as described below.
THREAT: A local user may gain root access to a system.
CERT VU Number: None.
CVE Number: CAN-2005-0155, CAN-2005-0156
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DETAILED INFORMATION
I. Description
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Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the perl language interpreter that
may allow a local user to gain root privileges. The perl interpreter is
installed by default in AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3. Versions of AIX prior to 5.2
do not have perl installed by default and are not vulnerable. Also, these
vulnerabilities occur only in perl with versions 5.8.0 through 5.8.6.
CAN-2005-0155
The first vulnerability is through the sperl program which runs perl as an
suid root process. This perl facility is not installed by default on AIX,
but the same vulnerability may exist if perl is invoked by another suid
root program.
CAN-2005-0156
The second vulnerability is in the perl interpreter itself and is a buffer
overflow. This is only specific to perl built with threads support, which
is supported in the AIX perl package.
The perl language ships in the perl.rte filesets. To determine if this
fileset is installed, execute the following command:
# lslpp -L perl.rte
If the fileset is installed, it will be listed along with its version
information, state, type and a description.
II. Impact
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A local attacker may gain root access to a system.
III. Solutions
===============
A. Official Fix
|IBM will provide the following fixes:
|
|APAR number for AIX 5.2.0: IY68464 (currently available)
|APAR number for AIX 5.3.0: IY68463 (currently available)
|
|NOTE: Affected customers are urged to upgrade to 5.2.0 or
|5.3.0 at the latest maintenance level.
| Updated: Fri Jun 10 15:19:40 CDT 2005
| Removed interim fix and workaround information.
IV. Obtaining Fixes
====================
AIX Version 5 APARs can be downloaded from:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.html
Security related Emergency Fixes can be downloaded from:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security
V. Acknowledgments
====================
The perl vulnerabilities were discovered by Kevin Kinisterre.
This issue was brought to our attention by Campo Weijerman of
IBM Netherlands.
This document was written by Kent Stuiber.
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